"Maybe I’m just naïve, but any time a Black person does anything truly irrational, I start to wonder who’s behind it."

Jesus?

The unintended irony of this piece is bone-chilling. The author himself is a crackpot of the first order, a blithering idiot.

The shamelessness of American stupidity and the will to self-deception are boundless. And anyone who thinks the views of Malcolm X in the final year of his life could possibly be reconciled with Elijah Muhammed is himself a crackpot, before he opens his mouth on any subject.

The Farrakhan/Malcolm question is only one bullet point in the overall stupidity of this article, which panders to ignorance in very way possible. But since we are on the subject, it is worthwhile to point out the mendacity of attempting to reduce disputes among blacks to conspiratorial provocation by outside parties.

But even where there's a case to be made that certain disputes were products, say of FBI meddling (which was certainly the case with the Black Panthers), the question remains: why was it so easy to turn people against one another? And to answer that question demands some hard introspection which this and other authors conveniently avoid.

But in the matter of Farrakhan/Malcolm and comparable situations, we have the rankest dishonesty at work. It is the utmost ignorance and dishonesty to assume a commonality among people of the same pigmentation, as if their conflicting philosophies, ideologies, politics, and commitments can be homogenized in the melting pot of pigmentation. The fraud that this author commits actually neutralizes political consciousness and precludes the very possibility of drawing political conclusions from anyone's political stance or behavior. But then this is all about mindless hero-worship anyway.

When a Black person does anything truly irrational, what is behind it? Confining ourselves to the USA for the moment, which is arguably comprised of the dumbest dumbass populace in the western world, we can answer the question for blacks, whites and others: what's behind it are institutionally reinforced bad habits of people who are not incidentally but fundamentally irrational and conditioned to be so in and by a fundamentally irrational social system. And when do Americans do anything truly irrational? It would be much easier to enumerate those exceptional rational thoughts and actions they manage to execute.

It's not always Jesus. The black Muslim Bey family has been run like a Mafia in Oakland for about 20 or 30 years. Papa Bey liked little girls, he would take them into his home as foster children and then rape them. Several of them had children at the ages of 13 and 14. DNA later proved that he had fathered them, but unfortunately, he died before the trial was completed, so his name is clear, and the family continues to extol his virtures. His sons have had a war to gain control of the family. They have run frauds, beat up and murdered people who got in their way, including witnesses. They had confidants in the highest reaches of the Oakland Police department, until he was unearthed and placed on leave. I think they finally became overconfident and overstepped by assassinating Chauncey Bailey. Hopefully that rats den will be cleaned out once and for all.....in the name of Allah...of course!!

I dont know how these people function amids all the confusing dogma in which they swim in. A serial killer is different from a religous or socio-political maniac. Colin Furguson and Tim Mcveigh seem to be a similiar type of criminal in mass murderers. But John Mohamed and Mansion were serial killiers with no real agenda. So you see in such cases its was not about race. The author is failing in pinpoint obvious religious fanaticism. Black people often tend to overlook the fact that the church is the guilty party. We are so afraid to critisize the church as we were taught not to do. There is no wondering in this case. The black crackpot shows up with an assault riffle because his pastor who is the head of what this black crackpot said is the best church is the world told him Obama should die. I dont even have to think to see who or what is behind it.

" Confining ourselves to the USA for the moment, which is arguably comprised of the dumbest dumbass populace in the western world, we can answer the question for blacks, whites and others: what's behind it are institutionally reinforced bad habits of people who are not incidentally but fundamentally irrational and conditioned to be so in and by a fundamentally irrational social system. And when do Americans do anything truly irrational? It would be much easier to enumerate those exceptional rational thoughts and actions they manage to execute."

This says it all. Crackpots bring media that in turn brings ratings by appealing to the most ignorant people who in turn believe anything.